Securing funding is probably the most important step entrepreneurs take in their quest to build a successful and lasting organisation. However, most people don’t know how to create a funding strategy, and they don’t make an effort to learn how to.Read More

Financial stress and its impact on mental health has seen a rise in absenteeism, poor work performance and a lowered concentration span at work, says a South African corporate healthcare consultancy.

Statistics from the World Federation for Mental Health show that on average 36 workdays are lost due to mental health issues and that more than 10% of the employed populations have taken time off work for depression. Read More

If you are not finding challenges that knock you flat on your back then you are missing out. A darker side of success that some have touched on is that you need to fail more. In addition to this, we should consider finding the challenges that punch us in the mouth and knock us unconscious.Read More

Why do you think depression has become so much more prevalent in the last 50 years? What is it about our society that has changed so much? What causes depression?

There’s no single cause of depression. Lots of things influence whether a person gets depressed. Some of it is biology — things like our genes, brain chemistry, and hormones. Some is environment, including daylight and seasons, or social and family situations we face.Read More

Technological progress and global integration are driving change in our current environment and the speed at which it is occurring increasing, this means that we need to run organisations in a different way. However, the number of organisations that are responsive to change and adapting their operations is small. Why is this?Read More

Successful entrepreneurs seem so……… well, successful? When we look at how well they have done, we wonder why we haven’t yet discovered our ‘million dollar idea’ that will place us in their ranks. After all, who doesn’t want to be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates? We all want to succeed although our definition of success differs from person to person. Read More

ABOUT ADGE Africa

Adge Africa is an African Business Incubation organisation specializing in accelerating the growth and increasing the success rate of start-up and early stage Small and Medium Enterprises.

The Adge Africa Business incubator programme helps develop and support current and new entrepreneurs to start-up businesses and equip them for survival, longevity and growth as sustainable businesses....